Thursday, September 3, 2009

Remodeling - Day Eight

Our contractor Danny was out today so we knew nothing had changed from yesterday construction wise.. so we headed up to the house fairly early. When we got up there the sky's were pretty good. There was a haze but i think it was just your typical SoCal haze. There wasn't much smoke in the air and to be honest it looked as though the fires were gone (of course we knew they weren't) but they weren't much of a factor today.

We first pulled off all the blue tape from the Guest Room and of course there was bleeding of the paint as we expected. Some spots were worse then others but for the most part it was all fixable. So Harry and I did a few touch ups here and there. We then went to the TV room and pulled up the tape in there and again the paint bleed through some areas so we did a few touch ups. Both the Guest Room and TV Room are done with exception of the window trim

We started with our main living room/dining room colors. We choose a sandy brown color and a stealy blue for the accent colors. We painted them on the wall and both Harry and I knew these were the colors we wanted. They looked great together and gave the feel that we wanted for those rooms.

We then put up the two kitchen colors that we choose.. it's a bold color for a kitchen but we opted for the brighter of the two (the one on the right) and then we painted the living room colors to see if they would all match since the rooms open to each other. And the all looked great together.

Next was the office, my buddy Greg is going to paint a Star Trek mural for us on one of the walls and it's going to be in space meaning a black wall so we wanted a bright color on the rest of the walls. We choose this blue but once on it felt too baby blue and I couldn't imagine that color on all the remaining walls. So we selected another more grey/blue and will get a sample for that later tonight.

Our master bedroom colors were the brown on the right and the wine as an accent and we liked the colors together but we felt that both of those colors would make the room much darker then we intended so instead we pulled the taupe color from our master bath room and made that our main color for our bedroom with the win accents.. and we really like that combination.

The guest bathroom already has the yellow.. which we like but we wanted to bring in an accent color and I don't know what we were thinking but the purple was so not what we wanted and we felt it would look to feminine.

So we took the light blue color that we didn't like for the office and the wine accent color from our master bedroom and painted those on the yellow to see if we liked any combination of those.. and we did.. we liked the yellow with the wine color so that will be the accent color for the guest bathroom.

Last and the hardest room to choose a color was our master bathroom. We had bought the taupe but really didn't like it with the tile and counter of the room. We took the brown that we intended for the master bedroom but that too didn't work with the tile and counter. So we tried the sandy color from the living/dining room and didn't like it.. so we are at a stand still when it comes to paint in our master bedroom. We want to keep the tile and counters because we like them (and cost) but we just need to find the perfect color to compliment them.

So out of all those colors we liked the majority of them and will be buying gallons of paint tomorrow and starting to have fun painting again.

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